Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
As part of The Boston Globe’s celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, GlobeDocs has partnered with Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc), the Center Asian American Media (CAAM), Boston Asian American Film Festival, and WORLD Channel to present a curated series of short films featuring AAPI stories. Veronica Chao, deputy managing editor, Living Arts, and editor of The Boston Globe Magazine, will moderate a discussion with a few of the filmmakers to shed light on the context and process behind each film.
Find the entire Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond viewer’s guide here!
A TALE OF THREE CHINATOWNS explores the survival of urban ethnic neighborhoods in three American cities: Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Boston. Through the voices of residents, community activists, developers, and government officials, the film looks at the forces altering each community and the challenges that go with them, including the pressing issue of urban development and gentrification.
In Chicago, Chinatown is a story of growth where the Asian American population has increased and its borders have expanded. While in contrast, Washington, D.C.’s Chinatown has dwindled to an estimated population of 300 residents of Chinese descent. The Chinatown neighborhood in Boston finds itself somewhere in between these two extremes as different groups fight for the land on which it sits.
Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, a young San Francisco film student and Chinatown resident turned his lens onto his community. Fast forward 50 years, Harry Chuck's now archival material portrays a divided community's struggles for self-determination. Weaving together never-before-seen footage and photographs, CHINATOWN RISING spans three generations in its portrait of the historic neighborhood in transition.
From the 1960s-1980s, the once quiet streets of Chinatown were rattled by the fight for bilingual education, tenants’ rights, affordable housing, and an ethnic studies curriculum. These struggles are chronicled through current-day interviews as Chinatown’s organizers and leaders of the '60s return to the battles for social justice and equality of their youth that would shape their community and nation.
A Tale of Three Chinatowns on Local, USA
Premieres Monday, 5/23 at 9pm ET on TV, online worldchannel.org, PBS & YouTube
Chinatown Rising on America ReFramed
Premieres Thursday, 5/26 at 8pm ET on TV, online worldchannel.org, PBS app & YouTube
Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond premieres every Tuesday on PBS and WORLD Channel's YouTube starting May 3.
Throughout the month of May, The Boston Globe is honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with special featured stories, events and programming to celebrate this rich history and to support and amplify the voices of AAPI members in our community.
We invite you to visit Globe.com/aapi to explore these stories and more.
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